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Colomb (Philip Howard) Slave-Catching in the Indian Ocean. A Record of Naval Experiences, first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece, 7 plates, folding map, spotting and browning throughout, original blue cloth, rebacked, spine darkened, gilt, g.e., covers a little soiled, 8vo, 1873. ***A scarce work. Colomb captained the H.M.S. Dryad in the Persian Gulf where he made a study of the Arab slave trade centered around Zanzibar and Oman. "His book is by far the most interesting and informative of the accounts published by sundry officers who served on the East India station." Coupland, The Exploitation of East Africa, 1856-1890.

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Salt (Henry) A group of 7 views in Abyssinia, from Twenty-Four Views in St Helena, The Cape, India, Ceylon, The Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt, plates XV and XVII-XXII, original hand-coloured aquatints, each c.530 x 705mm., occasional slight browning and light surface dirt, one with slight dampstaining within the image, framed and glazed, William Miller, 1809 (7) ***The specific titles present are The Town of Dixan in Abyssinia, View near the Village of Asceriah in Abyssinia, The Town of Abhu in Abyssinia, The Pass of Atbara in Abyssinia, The Obelisk at Axum, The Mountains of Samayut, and The Vale of Calaat..

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Salt (Henry) A group of 7 views in St Helena, South Africa and Abyssinia, Sandy Bay Valley in the Island of St Helena, A View near the Roode Sand Pass at the Cape of Good Hope, The Town of Dixan in Abyssinia, The Town of Abha in Abyssinia, The Pass of Atbara in Abyssinia, The Mountains of Samayut, The Vale of Calaat, all from Twenty-Four Views in St Helena, The Cape, India, Ceylon, The Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt, 7 original hand-coloured aquatints, each c.480 x 680mm., the first named with a few creases and and a tear, lower right, others with only slight marginal surface dust, [c.f. Abbey Travel 515], William Miller, 1809 (7)

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Jansson (Jan) Virginiæ partis australis, et Floridæ partis orientalis, from Le Nouveau Theatre de la Monde, the eastern seaboard of North America from Chesapeake Bay in the north east to northern Florida in the south west, containing the arms of Britain and France to indicate their regions of colonial interest at the time, with large decorative title cartouche supported by native figures, ships and compass roses, engraved map with original hand-colouring, 390 x 505mm., French text verso, a repaired split at head of central vertical fold, and a repaired marginal tear near the foot, this outside the platemark, a crease across the lower right sheet corner just affecting corner of plate but outside the border, [Burden 254], Amsterdam, 1639. ***One of four very closely related maps by Blaeu and Jansson, this represents a cartographic advance over its model, the Jodocus Hondius map of 1606. Jansson's copy of this map by Blaeu, of 1638, is distinguished only by the correct numerical sequence of longitude in the lower right corner, and the numerals of latitude appearing next to the black bars in the right border..

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Colton (J.H.) Colton's General Atlas, allegorical frontispiece, title and 99 maps, comparative diagram and city plans, including 8 double-page, lithographed maps, all but 3 with original hand-colouring, a few working loose and with frayed sheet edges, slight browning and occasional marginal surface dirt, contemporary cloth gilt, rubbed, rebacked, upper joint broken, folio, New York, 1860. ***The majority of maps and plans in this atlas are of American interest. It appears complete despite anomolies in the printed List of Maps, which states 102 map sheets in summary..

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SDUK. Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, vol II only, with 95 map sheets only, including 46 city plans, of which London, Paris and Venice are double-page, engraved maps with original hand-colouring, some spotting and surface dirt, disbound, Chapman and Hall, 1844; with the right sheet only of John Seller's 2-sheet 'Chart of the Baltick Sea', this with the inset 'Chart of the Harbour of Dantzik', 1675 or later; also with Wyld's 'European Domionions of the Ottomans, or Turkey in Europe', 1842; and the British Reform Society's 'Map Shewing the situation of each Roman Catholic Chapel, College or Seminary throughout England, Scotland and Wales', 1833

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Chinese School.- a group of 14 hand-coloured rice-paper drawings, depicting ?court figures, some with light spotting or small chips, a few with light damp-staining, but very good overall, 10 window-mounted and folding concertina-style into patterned boards with black marker pen to covers, 2 remaining framed and glazed, each c.205 x 150mm., [19th century]; and a rice-paper drawing of a butterfly (15)

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Chinese School.- a group of 12 hand-coloured Chinese rice-paper drawings, depicting colourful processional and ritualistic scenes, some with the usual chips and tears and light spotting, but very good overall, each c.180 x 305mm., framed and glazed, [19th century].

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Panckoucke (C.L.F.) [Description de l'Égypte], a group of 75 plates from the Histoire Naturelle volumes, including 62 botanical plates, and 14 from Minéralogie, engravings, each sheet c.520 x 690mm., or the reverse, loose, spotting and browning, with occasional surface dirt, some sheets with minor damp-staining, unframed, Paris, 1820-1829 (75).

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Tighe (Hannah) A sketchbook of Irish landscapes, mostly views on the family estate at Woodstock, Co. Kilkenny, including Woodstock House, a picturesque cottage and its kitchen interior, and the nearby abbey and village of Inistioge, others of Glanmore Castle, Co. Wicklow, Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford, also several others of Shrewsbury and the cottage of the ladies of Llangollen, 41 single- and 8 double-page pencil drawings, but two in pen ink with wash, one folding sheet of the waterfall at Woodstock, many captioned and dated, front pastedown inscribed H. Tighe, August 1814, Dublin, half-roan over plain boards, worn, oblong 4to (225 x 280mm.), 1814-15. ***Hannah (d.1872) was the daughter of William Tighe MP (1776-1816) of Woodstock, Co. Kilkenny, and was the first cousin of the poet, Mary Tighe. In 1818, Hannah Tighe married Lord Patrick James Crichton-Stuart (1794-1859), son of John Stuart, Viscount Mount Stuart (1767-1794), son of the 1st Marquess of Bute. Woodstock House was built in the mid-18th century by Sir William Fownes before passing into the Tighe family through marriage. It was burnt down in 1922, during the civil war..

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Stuart (Lady James, née Hannah Tighe) Sketches in the Island of Bute, manuscript title over mounted watercolour of Rothsay Harbour, and 57 views, including 2 moonlit scenes by Gastineau after Lady Stuart, most of Bute but also including views of Staffa, the House of Falkland in Fife, Bute Docks in Cardiff, St Donat's, Caerphilly and elsewhere in South Wales, watercolours and one or two drawings, v.s., most captioned, one dated 1849, a few loosely inserted, the majority mounted on leaves in a half-morocco album, oblong folio, c.1850. ***The Stuart family were descendants of John Stewart, illigitimate son of Robert II of Scotland, and in 1627, James Stuart (the spelling changing during the reign of Mary Queen of Scots in line with her practice whilst in France) was created Baronet of Bute. His grandson, the 3rd Baronet, was raised to the Earl of Bute in 1703. In 1766, the 4th Earl married the Hon. Charlotte Jane, daughter of the 2nd Viscount Windsor, whose father had married into the family of the Earls of Pembroke, thereby eventually acquiring vast estates in South Wales, and in 1776 becoming Baron Cardiff. Lord Patrick James Stuart, grandson of the 1st Marquess of Bute, who married Hannah Tighe in 1818, was elected MP for Cardiff. So they divided much of their time between his Cardiff constituency, where the Stuart family built the docks, and the Isle of Bute (after which the docks were named), where he was appointed Lord Lieutenant..

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Stuart (Lady James, née Hannah Tighe) An album of mostly Italian views, including 8 grand vistas of Rome and 3 of Genoa, several Italian and other costume figures, 2 of Woodstock and Inistioge in Kilkenny, 2 of Tunbridge Wells, 4 of Malvern, and others including views and scenes after Samuel Prout and Joshua Cristall, c.50 watercolours including a few drawings, v.s., most captioned, most mounted on album leaves in half diced calf over marbled boards, worn, folio, c.1850.

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Stuart (Lady James, née Hannah Tighe) Sketches in Spain; Sketches taken during a Tour in Normandy &c., an album of watercolours recording 2 continental trips, including views in Seville, Malaga and Gibraltar, Chateau de la Falaise, Mont St Michel, Dinan and elsewhere, the former with manuscript title dated 1852 and 1853, with a mounted sketch of the Assumption of the Virgin, and 59 further watercolours and wash drawings, including two fold-out panoramas, the latter with manuscript title dated 1850, with a mounted watercolour harbour scene, and 18 further watercolours or pen and ink drawings, all but seven mounted on leaves in a half-morocco album, worn, lacking spine, folio, 1850-53.

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Stuart (Lady James, née Hannah Tighe) An album of mostly northern European views, a tour through Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, with views of Bruges, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Potsdam, Zurich, the Alps and elsewhere, c.1844, also some later views in France, including Paris and Nimes, in the 1850s, watercolours and a few drawings, v.s., many initialled H.S., most captioned, 30 mounted on album leaves, 18 loosely inserted, disbound in marbled boards, oblong folio, 1844-58.

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A small album of watercolours and drawings, by various artists, including 2 by Peter Rittig of an Italian peasant family at a calvery and a portrait of a monk, a temple in the East Indies by Eliza Hunter-Blair, several equestrian scenes by Edward Hull, and other scenes mongrammed EH apparently another hand, and others mostly figure scenes and portraits, including 1 by Prince Polignace and 2 after Van Dyck, c.35 watercolours and drawings, v.s, variously signed or initialled. and occasionally dated 1830s-50s, a few captioned in English or German, all but a few mounted on album leaves watermarked 1824, a few working loose, vellum boards, elaborately gilt, rubbed and rebacked, oblong 4to, mid 19th century. ***A loosely inserted note of provenance, signed C. Crichton-Stuart, and dated 1921, states the album was a gift from Aunt Isabella Seymour, who had received it from her mother, Lady Seymour..

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Album of continental sketches, including 'Vue prise aux environs de Tournay' by Louis Gallait, other views of Brussels, Dieppe, Boulogne, Genoa, and elsewhere, by several competent hands, a few other views of Dover, Margate, Algiers and others unidentified, also a few caricatures, romantic and other subjects, c.60 drawings, watercolours and prints, v.s., a few signed, some others initialled or indistinctly monogrammed, most mounted on album leaves, some loosely inserted, 19th century gilt- and blind-tooled morocco boards, worn, oblong folio, mid 19th century.

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Müller (Johann Christoph) Mappa Geographica Regni Bohemiae in duodecim circulos divisæ, large wall map formed of a composite set of 25 sheets, the map engraved by Michael Kauffer, the large vignettes in each corner by Johann Daniel Herz after Wenceslaus Laurentius Reinner, including a view of Prague upper left, and title lower right, engraved map in 25 sheets, unjoined, 12 sheets in the upper half intact with folds, but with neatlines trimmed, of which 10 sheets with hand-colouring, the corner vignettes being uncoloured, the remaining 13 sheets all uncoloured, dissected but with neatlines intact, all 25 sheets linen-backed, approx. 2350 x 2800mm., if joined, all generally clean and in good condition, the upper 12 sheets with key labels mounted verso and folding into a modern box, the lower 13 all folding into a 19th century plain slipcase with marbled chemise, 4to, Augsburg, 1720.

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France.- Janvier (J.D.) and Longchamps. Nouveau plan de la ville et faubourgs de Paris par elevation, bird's-eye plan view of Paris, centered on the Ile de la Cité, north orientated to the lower left, with 22 inset vignettes of places of interest along the sides and lower edge, and with an inset map of the outskirts of Paris, engraving, printed on 8 sheets, joined, c.1150 x 1360mm., dissected and linen-backed, some surface dirt, a few areas of surface abrasion, one or two areas of surface loss, repaired tears, folding with coloured endpapers, detached from brown cloth covered boards, spine gilt, some splitting, worn, 4to, c.1766.

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Germany.- Prout (Samuel) Facsimiles of Sketches Made in Flanders and Germany, first edition, lithographed throughout with title, dedication and 50 lithographed plates by Prout printed by Hullmandel on pale grey paper, title and dedication foxed, one or two small spots to plates but generally very clean, some tissue guards with insect damage at lower outer corner but not affecting plates, contemporary half morocco over cloth, rubbed, [Ray 83], folio, Hullmandel, [c.1833]. The plates also include five views of Prague. ***"Prout was a pioneer lithographer who employed the process as early as 1817, when most of his fellow artists were ignorant or contemptuous of it. His friend and disciple Ruskin specifically exempted Prout from his dismissal of lithography in The Elements of Drawing, noting that "all his published lithographic sketches are of the greatest value, wholly unrivalled in power of composition, and in love and feeling of architectural subjects" (p.339)...Unfortunately these lithographs are now assiduously sought after as single prints, and complete copies of the book [Flanders and Germany] have virtually disappeared." Gordon N. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914..